6 Mar
2009
6 Mar
'09
9:58 a.m.
Greetings,
A quick question: Is there any acceptable substitute for nVidia's
3D-capable chipsets ? I'm particularly interested in hearing from anyone
who formerly used nVidia hardware and has switched to something of equal
performance capability, assuming there is such a thing. Also, I'm not
very interested in what's going to happen, I'm interested in what's
available now.
Best,
dp
6 Mar
6 Mar
10:21 a.m.
There's the one and only AMD ATI left. For catalyst-rt, it's a sad case
since catalyst itself is a sad case. Apparently, the xorg team has been
doing a wonderful job with xf86-video-radeonhd.
For non-discrete solutions, it seems the latest Intel offering offers a fair
performance chart relative to mobile nVidia, ATI, SiS and others. No
problems with drivers there although xf86-video-intel needs some smoothing
out.
I switched from nVidia to ATI back in 2006. I then went on to use an older
laptop with nVidia's mobile 440. From 2008 I've been with an Intel-based
laptop (GMA 950, 945 chipset) while the two family desktops at home are
running GeForce 7800GT and Radeon X800GT respectively.
11:06 a.m.
On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:58:49 -0500
Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
Greetings,
A quick question: Is there any acceptable substitute for nVidia's
3D-capable chipsets ? I'm particularly interested in hearing from anyone
who formerly used nVidia hardware and has switched to something of equal
performance capability, assuming there is such a thing. Also, I'm not
very interested in what's going to happen, I'm interested in what's
available now.
Phoronix.com is a great site for this sort of thing - they cover news and do benchmarks
for all the latest cards on Linux.
Nothing more to add - I'm still using a trusty Radeon 9200 (old) and before that I had
a Matrox Mystique (very old)...
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7 Mar
7 Mar
5:25 p.m.
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 08:58 -0500, Dave Phillips wrote:
Greetings,
A quick question: Is there any acceptable substitute for nVidia's
3D-capable chipsets ? I'm particularly interested in hearing from anyone
who formerly used nVidia hardware and has switched to something of equal
performance capability, assuming there is such a thing. Also, I'm not
very interested in what's going to happen, I'm interested in what's
available now.
The "newest" I've managed to get to work with open source drivers is the
Radeon 1650 based cards. They run fine and have 3d acceleration but most
probably they are slow when compared with the nVidia cards. And of
course they are getting scarce and are hard to find (I can dig the exact
model number we are using on Monday). X800 based Radeon's were still not
working completely last time I tested.
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8 Mar
8 Mar
5:14 a.m.
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando(a)ccrma.Stanford.EDU> writes:
The "newest" I've managed to get to work
with open source drivers is
the Radeon 1650 based cards.
Well, it's like this:
The top of the line is Radeon X1900,X1950 that you can run pretty
flawlessly with free software support. I've always tracked the latest
card that has free software support. Before this card, it was the
9200, 9250 and before that it was the matrox g400, g550.
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8:18 a.m.
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Esben Stien <b0ef(a)esben-stien.name> wrote:
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
<nando(a)ccrma.Stanford.EDU> writes:
Radeon x1650 here as well. Works with the open source radeonhd driver just
fine, with a single 26" monitor. (Even though the card is dual head.)
Resolution's good, and no tearing (anymore), after a few basic tweaks.
This is with a freshly baked Debian Lenny 5 RT kernel compiled from vanilla,
with Ingo's patches, still warm out of the oven.
Alex.
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The "newest" I've managed to get to
work with open source drivers is
the Radeon 1650 based cards.
Well, it's like this:
The top of the line is Radeon X1900,X1950 that you can run pretty
flawlessly with free software support. I've always tracked the latest
card that has free software support. Before this card, it was the
9200, 9250 and before that it was the matrox g400, g550.
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http://www. s t n m
irc://irc. b - i . e/%23contact
sip:b0ef@ e e
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9 Mar
2:14 p.m.
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 02:18:54PM +0300, alex stone wrote:
Radeon x1650 here as well. Works with the open source
radeonhd driver just
fine, with a single 26" monitor. (Even though the card is dual head.)
Resolution's good, and no tearing (anymore), after a few basic tweaks.
This is with a freshly baked Debian Lenny 5 RT kernel compiled from vanilla,
with Ingo's patches, still warm out of the oven.
Well, just for some comparison, I tried a X1300pro. With the radeon
driver, it wouldn't support dual head correctly. With the radeonhd
driver, it wouldn't detect the screen resolutions correctly (insisted
that I had 1368x768 displays when they were 1280x1024). I'm using
radeonhd from the VC head.
At some point I mean to setup a test machine to try again and get the
driver fixed.
In the mean time I found the HD2400 to be more usable, even though the
driver support is much further behind (so it is slow).
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